Quotes about Relationships

He is jealous for you. He is jealous for me. The fullness of His love and lavish acceptance is the only match for the rejections we will experience. And He absolutely doesn't want us making other relationships the false gods of our worship. As we seek love and acceptance, God doesn't want us to test Him; He wants us to trust Him.

God gave us emotions. Emotions allow us to feel as we experience life. Because we feel, we connect.

It's easy to live loved when I feel loved.

Unrealistic expectations are things the other person isn't able or willing to do for me. I have to let go of these.

Relationships were reduced to attempts at managing what I feared about them rather than enjoying what I loved about them.

Healthy relationships don't feel threatening. Loving relationships don't feel cruel. Secure relationships don't feel as if everything could implode if you dared to draw a boundary.

We must respect ourselves enough to break the pattern of placing unrealistic expectations on others. After all, people will not respect us more than we respect ourselves. No, it's not wrong to need people. But some of our biggest disappointments in life are the result of expectations we have of others that they can't ever possibly meet.

If we are living honest lives that honor God, we must not forget that people not liking our boundary does not mean we aren't living right before God. We mustn't let unhealthy people control us or have too much access to our hearts so that their negative opinion shakes us. God's is the only opinion that matters!

Relationships don't come in packages of perfection; relationships come in packages of potential.

I have to remember that giving honor reveals more about my character than the character of the other person.

God calls us to obey Him. God does not call us to obey every wish and whim of other people. God calls us to love other people. God does not call us to demand that they love us back and meet every need we have.

People do affect us. But the peace of our souls is tethered to all that God is.